We had a holiday weekend, and needing/wanting to tackle the serious work of replacing the dry-rot and making progress on the rehabilitation stage of r-cabin, I spent Friday ordering all the windows from Millwork Outlet in Maple Valley, and Ron and I spent Saturday getting supplies and purchasing our Honda Generator from Goodsell Power Equipment. The drive Sunday was beautiful and we’re still trying to get to know all the named peaks on the route. 
When we arrived at r-cabin, we unloaded the truck, and loaded it right back up again with a pile for the dump we had left over from the last time we were up (our neighbors had brought over home-made cookies to welcome us to the woods after we had loaded the truck with this pile of rubbish and we missed closing at the dump by 15 minutes). After finally discarding the rubbish, we stopped for lunch in town. 
Back at r-cabin, we got to work removing the siding, and assessing the full depth and breadth of the dry-rot. This is where the kitchen used to be, but won’t be where we put the new kitchen.
Assessing the best way to access the rotted floor joist, Ron made a cut in the decking in front of the door and we removed the decking in a small section.
After bracing the beams holding the roof up to ensure r-cabin didn’t kill us, we finally removed the exterior wall. 
What?
It was about this time, that we knew we needed to head back towards Interstate-5 to get to a home improvement store and buy the correct size plywood for the flooring and the lumber to replace the rotted floor joist. There is a Home Depot in Sedro-Woolley, and we figured we had just enough time to get there. However, it wasn’t until we get into town that our phone get service again, and learn that HD was 1 hour away and closed in 10 minutes. I did a search for Lowes, and there was one in Mt. Vernon, that closed in 1 hour 10 minutes and was 1 hour away. We did some two-lane highway passing and got to Lowes 14 minutes before they closed.
Racing to the lumber section, we got some assistance from a Lowe’s Employee, and bought 2×6’s, 2×8’s and some spare 2×4’s, just in case. We also bought plywood and screws, and a gas can for the generator. When we were loading up, Ron began to get very worried that we didn’t get big enough floor joist’s, and we would have to drive another 2-hour roundtrip in the morning, so, 10 minutes after closing, he went in the Exit and pleaded his case with the workers, asking to let him make one more purchase. He exited with 2×10’s after a few minutes and we finished securing our load. You can see Ron testing the load by standing on it.
This is the not-so-glamourous side of rehabilitation. Eating Taco Bell at a gas station because everything else is closed because you were shopping for lumber. Sometimes, food’s just fuel, and anything is better than nothing.
So that was the end of LDWWWD1-D. Here you can see we set up the REI half-dome on the deck, and had a pretty comfortable first overnight stay falling asleep listening to the river and dreaming of the visits to r-cabin that won’t involve tool belts, Skil-saw’s.
